Películas de José Mojica Marins

An authentically marginal cinema created in Catholic university in Brazil. One of the most intriguing and imaginative moments in modern cinema in the...

Released from the Mental Health Wing of São Paulo State Penitentiary after forty years, the sadistic undertaker Zé do Caixão is...

Zé do Caixão is an undertaker in a small Brazilian town, searching for the perfect woman to bear him a superior child. Unable to...

Zé do Caixão, the unholy undertaker, is back in town to continue his quest for the perfect woman, embarking on an even more brutal...

"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."

Rebeca and her family move into an abandoned house with a sinister past. Her father wants to renovate the house and turn it into a rotisserie. With...

A journey of years through many countries and film festivals; a nostalgic, adrenaline-fueled and rock-spirited immersion into the universe of...

Tiny film made for the "1-minute Film Festival". When the death comes, it is time to kiss her.

An eclectic group of strangers seek shelter on a dark and stormy night, soon finding an isolated guest house owned by a mysterious proprietor.

A naked stranger emerges from the sea to perform miracles in a nearby town and become a modern messiah whose deeds will affect the whole world.

A psychiatrist experiments on four volunteers with LSD to examine 60's drug culture, soon unleashing an expert in depravity.

While out for a walk in the countryside, Marina and Juvenal stop to take some pictures in front of an old woman’s house. Annoyed, the old woman...

A mad scientist attempts to bring an ancient Egyptian mummy back to life.

15 directors telling 15 tales about São Paulo.

Filmmaker José Mojica Marins travels to spend Christmas with friends in a small farm, where they spend leisure time while Mojica writes the...

Dr. George Medeiros, a brilliant scientist, is badly disfigured when his wife takes a lover and plans to murder him. After months in the hospital, he...

The first documentary on José Mojica Marins's (the legendary Zé do Caixão or Coffin Joe) life and work. The film tells Mojica's...

After seeing the film "24 Horas de Sexo Explícito", Dr Margaret, sexologist hires the same crew to make a new movie, doubling the time - an...

The short film reports the process of rescuing and finishing A Praga, by José Mojica Marins, o Zé do Caixão. Produced in 1980,...

An autobiographical docu-drama that chronicles the filmmaker's struggle with narrow minded authorities, critics, and personal tragedy.

The dedicated priest Pedro arrives in the city of Serinhaém, ready to reopen the church, closed by the feared local bandit, Rodrigo Napu, and...

Man tries to decipher a manuscript about an ancient civilization and gets involved in strange situations. In fact, the plot is just an excuse to...

The story of a fakir who works in a decadent circus. He and his colleagues do weirder numbers each day to attract audience, and warrant their...

After being shot fleeing from a gunfight, the bandit Jaime falls to a riverbank, where is rescued by two beautiful young women. He becomes involved...

Andréa, a poor telemarketing salesgirl, dreams of being a singer. Her rich boyfriend Fred hires a musical producer, Marcelo, to turn her into...

This film is Ivan Cardoso's new incursion on pop and experimental cinema, making an hommage to old screenings at Cine AC, and reuniting restaured...

On Christmas Eve, Mauro, a reporter, has 24 hours to find a headline.

Without any dialogue, the film tells the story of a man who had an Oedipal passion for his mother. After getting married, the disorders return with...

A prominent millionaire gets a woman drunk and rapes her, biting off her nipple in the process. Because of his influence and powerful lawyer, though,...

Finis Hominis sets out to right wrongs, expose corruption and end the social unrest that he sees in the world.

Zé Rocha is a director trying to shoot his first film. He dreams of making a professional movie, and starts shooting in 35mm. But as his...

Felipe is a boy with a double life, whose relationship with an older woman does not have the approval of his mother, a bitter woman. With the arrival...

Zé do Caixão hosts this anthology of three short horror stories which feature a strange dollmaker, a necrophiliac balloon seller with a...

A late-1960s interview with Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, mixed in avant-garde style with scenes from his films and clips from fellow filmmaker...

As filmmaker Jairo Ferreira shoots his life and friends in Super 8mm he also becomes the vampire of the Cinemateca Brasileira in São Paulo. In...

The making of an unfinished film about phobias. Says the director. Behind the screens, he discusses at length (with e.g. Coffin Joe) about the...

An unusual look at 1978 Brasilia Film Festival and the politics that make certain films fashionable or not.

On the night of the premiere of his film "Embodimento of Evil", Zé do Caixão is accidentally kidnapped by two fans and they all embark...

One of the great iconic filmmakers of the horror genre returns with one of the final projects he will manage in his lifetime.

The undertaker Coffin Joe kidnapped Terezinha, and he will test if she is the perfect woman. Antonio, the girl's boyfriend, intends to rescue her,...

After the proclamation of the Republic, a group of fanatics in the sertão dreamed of and fought for the restoration of the Monarchy. At that...

An anthology film (eight shorts) honoring the Boca do Lixo ("Mouth of Garbage") film production in the downtown area of São Paulo, Brazil.

Afonso Brazza became a fireman for the love of the profession. He became a film director and actor for the same reason. Brazza became one of the most...

Documentary about José Mojica Marins made by film students.

A film portrait of Jose Mojica Marins.

Coffin Joe takes you into his mad world and shows some of the strangest trailers from South America.

A travelogue through the remains of São Paulo failing 80s economy, including its in ruins film industry.

In 1982, almost five million people took theaters to see Erotic Things, the first Brazilian porn film. The production is today considered a major...

The town of Vila Velha is put under a reign of terror by a powerful colonel nicknamed "The Devil", who influences local politicians and hires...

A psychiatric doctor driven to insanity by nightmare visions of Zé do Caixão trying to steal his wife is helped by colleagues who...

In São Paulo, Alberto is an insane and sadistic man that kills women, and lives with his mother that covers all his mess. When he kills his...

A documentary on prolific underground Brazilian filmmaker Rogério Sganzerla.

A detective is hired by a mysterious woman to find her missing husband, a master of disguises, and important industry executive.

An unhappy woman, married and mother of two children, has problems with her alcoholic husband, sexually rejecting him, and only reaching pleasure in...

A forgotten lasagna mutates into a monster.

Woman who was raped and murdered reincarnates in the body of Maria Imaculada, a meek housemaid who hides her true inner evil behind an innocent face,...

Ultra low budget, shot-on-video Brazilian horror involves a devil worship cult sacrificing women to Satan.

A 2000-year-old woman has a pact with the devil to preserve her youth. She must extract the essence of life from the people she has sex with.

After taking part in a satanic orgy at a beach in 1850, Macário meets Exú-Lebara, a female pagan entity. She decides to go along in his...

A film director, Walter, meets his old team to make a "road movie". With no money, they will have come up with scams in order to make the production...

An american explorer organizes an expedition to the Amazon Rainforest in search of a lost treasure.

Jorge, bastard child of the infamous Red Light Bandit, decides himself to pursuit a life of crime after meeting with his father, who has been...

Tired of the constant abuse he suffers in his household, a boy runs away from home and goes on a series of sad and dramatic adventures, in which he...

A boy goes to his girlfriend's home and is handcuffed on bed before discovering some strange food habits from her family.

Two friends travel into the Amazon Rainforest, where they find a hidden kingdom ruled by a bloodthirsty sultan. One of José Mojica Marins'...

Compilation of early Ivan Cardoso's films in Super 8, including "Nosferato no Brasil (Nosferato in Brazil)"

A totally Cardoso-appropriated footage delirium, done as a tribute to US independent cinema's original rebel. In the end, Corman himself blesses...

A group of kids embarks in a macabre adventure, full of characters from the Brazilian popular imaginary - the werewolf, a witch, a ghost, monsters...

Person is a documentary about the life and work of filmmaker Luiz Sérgio Person. The documentary brings the reconstruction of the history of...

A Cat from outer-space comes to earth and befriends a Miller's Son and together they set out to defeat an evil wizard.

"Gurcius Gewdner Show" is the pilot of a nonsense humor program. Presented by the irreverent character that gives the program its title, it follows...

An investigation into three São Paulo urban legends: The Devil Baby, the Blonde of the Bathroom and the Clown Gang. Originated in rumours,...

Lloyd Kaufman Goes to São Paulo, Brazil to teach his famous "Make Your Own Damn Movie" Master Class, and while there he meets with the heart...

Two years of research and visits to collections, cinematheques and museums; almost seventy interviews that generated 30 hours of recorded material;...

A look into the Porto Fantastic Film Festival at Portugal.

A girl crosses the forest to get milk and on the way she knows about Saci, who punishes those who do not respect the people of the forest.

Segment "Prólogo": interviews and scenes with some of the most important filmmakers of the "Boca do Lixo" of São Paulo. Segment "A...

Two Chemistry students, unlucky with women, develop a formula that turns them into crazed rapists. But they eventually discover that they are in love...

Documentary short film about the filmmaker, actress, writer, TV presenter "Liz Marins". Daughter of the master of national horror - the eternal...

A collection of Necrophagia's gory music videos featuring cameos by horror legends like Coffin Joe and Paul Naschy.